Display content based on date with PHP

Question

I\'m putting together a contest site built on Wordpress. Legally, the contest has to start at midnight. To avoid being up at midnight to set up the content, i\'d like to bui

Answer 1

You can put the splash and content components in separate .php files, and simply include() then within the conditionals.

if ($date > $contestStart) {
    include("SECRETDIR/contest.php");
}

else {
    include("SECRETDIR/splash.php");
}

You'll want to set up an .htaccess so that people cannot point their browsers towards secretdir and directly access contest.php